When was LongCat-Flash-Lite released?

LongCat-Flash-Lite was released on February 5, 2026 by Meituan. This is the official LongCat-Flash-Lite release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How much does LongCat-Flash-Lite cost?

LongCat-Flash-Lite pricing starts at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens via Meituan, the lowest price among tracked providers.

Is LongCat-Flash-Lite available via API?

Yes, LongCat-Flash-Lite is available via API. See the official documentation for authentication and endpoint details. It is served by 1 provider tracked on LLM Stats.

How big is LongCat-Flash-Lite?

LongCat-Flash-Lite has 68.5 billion parameters. It ships as an open-weight model, so you can download and run it on your own hardware.

Who created LongCat-Flash-Lite?

LongCat-Flash-Lite was created by Meituan.

What is the license for LongCat-Flash-Lite?

LongCat-Flash-Lite is released under the MIT license. This is an open-source / open-weight license that permits self-hosting.

What is LongCat-Flash-Lite latency?

LongCat-Flash-Lite p95 time to first token is 1.50 seconds via Meituan over the trailing 7 days. Lower time to first token means the model begins responding sooner for chat, agents and API workloads.

Where can I use LongCat-Flash-Lite?

LongCat-Flash-Lite is available through 1 provider including Meituan.

What models should I compare LongCat-Flash-Lite against?

Common LongCat-Flash-Lite comparisons include LongCat-Flash-Lite vs MiMo-V2.5-Pro, LongCat-Flash-Lite vs Phi 4 Reasoning, LongCat-Flash-Lite vs Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and API availability.

LongCat-Flash-Lite API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

Name: LongCat-Flash-Lite
Author: Meituan

LongCat-Flash-Lite: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

LongCat-Flash-Lite is a language model from Meituan, released in February 2026, with a 256K-token context window, and pricing from $0.100/M input and $0.400/M output.

LongCat-Flash-Lite is a lightweight MoE model from Meituan with 68.5B total parameters and only 2.9B-4.5B activated per token. It explores N-gram embedding expansion as a new scaling direction, supporting 256K context length via YaRN.

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LongCat-Flash-Lite benchmarks

Capability tiers

Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.

Real tasks performance

How LongCat-Flash-Lite performs across real-world prompt categories.

Performance by conversation depth

How LongCat-Flash-Lite holds up as conversations get longer.

Quality Tracker

LongCat-Flash-Lite Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

llm-stats.com - Mon Aug 24 2026

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LongCat-Flash-Lite pricing

Providers

LongCat-Flash-Lite starts at $0.100 per million input tokens and $0.400 per million output tokens via Meituan.

Provider	Input $/M	Cached input $/M	Output $/M	Context in / out	TTFT p95 s	Output p5 c/s	Modalities in / out
Meituan	$0.100	—	$0.400	256.0K/128.0K	1.50	—	/

Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.

LongCat-Flash-Lite model size

LongCat-Flash-Lite has 68.5 billion parameters. See how it compares to other models in the same parameter range.

Parameters

68.5BMoE

Large (30–80B)

68.5B

1B7B70B405B

LongCat-Flash-Lite context window

Input and output token limits for LongCat-Flash-Lite, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

InputOutput

256Ktokens

128Ktokens

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256K

8K128K1M

LongCat-Flash-Lite API

Available from the model provider

LongCat-Flash-Lite is available from Meituan. It is not currently routed through the LLM Stats gateway.

Read the official API documentation

LongCat-Flash-Lite latency

LongCat-Flash-Lite time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.

LongCat-Flash-Lite examples

Recent arena outputs from LongCat-Flash-Lite, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

LongCat-Flash-Lite license

LongCat-Flash-Lite is released under the MIT license, which permits commercial use, has 68.5B parameters.

License: MIT; Commercial use allowed
Parameters: 68.5B

MIT License - allows commercial use

LongCat-Flash-Lite resources

Official sources for LongCat-Flash-Lite: api documentation, official playground, model weights.

LongCat-Flash-Lite vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to LongCat-Flash-Lite are MiMo-V2.5-Pro, Phi 4 Reasoning, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.